Canada Transformed Under Its Liberal Government

"I remind the Muslims: Do you ever think that the Jewish community can also retaliate? You know, have they gone and burned halal meat stores? Look at all the Muslim businesses. Have they targeted them?"

"They don't retaliate. And this is the big difference. While it's hate on one side, the other side is just so busy defending themselves and looking for ways to make peace."

"[The protesters are] not so much pro-Palestine, as much as they hate [Israel]. [If] these people were saying, let's have peace, let's have a ceasefire, it would make sense [but that's not what they're saying]."

Raheel Raza, president, Council of Muslims Against Antisemitism 

 

"Islamist extremist groups exploited [Hamas's October 7 massacre in Israel and the ensuing way in Gaza to] organize, mobilize support, take part in demonstrations [and] engage in agitation on social media."

"This was orchestrated by domestic interests -- including followers of Salafism, which is described as] the Islamist extremist movement with the largest number of adherents in Germany [and foreign terrorist groups such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Vancouver-based Samidoon]."

"[Some of these groups began working together for the first timer after October 7, with their] antisemitic ideas [forming the] common denominator in the ideology of the entire Islamist extremist spectrum."

"[In Germany and neighbouring countries, numerous attacks were planned or carried out by] lone actors with Islamist extremist motives [proving that] Islamist terrorism continues to pose a threat."

Report on the Protection of the Constitution, German government 

 

"I suspect Canadian police forces consider such information potentially inflammatory."

"Just as crime statistics categorized by race of perpetrator have been used to identify biases in the criminal justice system, information on the religious and ethnic identity of perpetrators of hate crime can be used to provide certain categories of the population with educational support, thus helping to ameliorate the problem."

Robert Brym, professor emeritus, University of Toronto 

Prime Minister Mark Carney is flanked by members of his security detail as he delivers remarks at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto on Monday, June 1 2026. Chris Young/The Canadian Press.

 

Under the latest iteration in a succession of Liberal governments in Canada it has become clear that a government that once never hesitated to state its friendship and support for a sister democracy recognized in Israel has taken great pains in the last decade to distance itself from the Jewish state and at the same time alienate Jewish Canadians by its deliberate oblivious attitude to the groundswell of antisemitism that has washed ashore along with the welcome of immigrants, refugees, illegal migrants and foreign students studying at Canadian academic institutions hailing from the Middle East and North Africa.

 

A Canadian government at present that has blinkered itself from its constitutional obligations to ensure the security of all sectors of its population base. The rising tide of violence against Jewish institutions that has seen synagogues and Jewish schools firebombed and shot at, Jewish-owned businesses vandalized, university campuses housing anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian camps harassing the Jewish professoriate and students, issuing threats and slurs, intimating another Holocaust, with crowds of protesters thronging the streets chanting 'final solution' and 'from the river to the sea', roiling the social order, elicits a mild condemnation of antisemitism, invariably coupled with rejection of 'Islamophobia' from government leaders.

 

A person holds a sign while marching during a pro-Palestine rally marking the anniversary of a Hamas attack on Israel, in Vancouver, on Monday, October 7, 2024. Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press.

 

Canada has become a hotbed of Islamist extremism, with a loud and hateful (hopefully) minority of its two million Muslim citizens and  residents of the country seething with Jew-hate and openly demonstrating their contempt for Judaism in the guise of anti-Zionism, a hundred-year-old modern movement to reclaim Judean ancestral land as a reborn heritage homeland for the world's Jewish diaspora, ceaselessly threatened throughout the millennia. Zionism has become fundamental to Jewish thought for it speaks of memory and longing and a fervent wish for a geographic place that is Jewish, where the pogroms that haunted Jewish life for an eternity could be safeguarded against.

 

Even that hope  has been dashed time and again by the incandescent hate emanating from Israel's neighbours in the Middle East; now reduced to a  degree from neghbouring states, but taken up with a murderous vengeance by the fundamentalist Islamist groups that are funded, armed and protected by states such as Iran, Qatar and Turkey and their non-state terror groups whose sole function is to achieve the destruction of the Jewish state. Arabs identifying themselves as Palestinians, aided and abetted by the powerful global institution of the United Nations have endlessly attacked Israel, culminating in a bloody massacre on 7 October 2023 which led to Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip to rout out Hamas which led that savage incursion into southern Israel.

 

Jews in Israel and worldwide, soon seeing the evidence of sadistic torture of innocent Israeli civilians, with girls and women mutilated then mass-raped and murdered, families set afire in their community homes as a mass atrocity of unthinkable brutality took place, might have felt that the world would be moved by their tragedy, but such was not the case. The viral antipathy of Israel defending itself and its people, responding to the mass atrocity with a determination to seek justice by military means of defence and counteroffensive, soon realized that even the evidence produced by the terrorists filming their own predatory obscenities made little difference.

 

Palestinians have been forgiven their descent into feral barbarism; Jews are condemned for their response in defence of their existence. The slanderous blood libels of Israeli 'genocide' against Palestinians have won the public relations gold cup. Few are prepared to outright state that the virulently threatening antisemitism now common on the streets of Canadian cities are the result of permitting people with a culture of Jew-hate and an ideological-religious inability to honour the values and laws of a democratic Western government are being perpetrated by bigoted, hate-mongering Islamists.  

 

A bullet hole is seen in a front door at Temple Emanu-El in Toronto on March 3, 2026. The temple was one of three Toronto-area Jewish sites targeted by gunfire in less than a week. Photo by Peter J. Thompson / National Post

 

Should such accusations of source emanate from Jews themselves, despite that those who are attacked clearly identify their attackers as Muslim, and when law enforcement does step in in response to egregious attacks, names of the transgressors are clearly identifiable as Muslim, charges of racism and Islamophobia ring forth. The firm reluctance of Canadian governments at all levels to admit that the presence of unregenerated racists whose first and only loyalty is to Islam and its Koranic passages of anti-Jewish denigration and loathing links directly to the politics of voter loyalty at the ballot box.  

"I call it the new antisemitism. All those Islamist organizations who don't get along with each other come together with one cause -- the hate for Israel and the Jewish community. So they justify it."
"It's quite clear that the major funders of these rallies while the head of the snake of course, is Iran, and through its proxies, through its organizations, through its mosques they channel the funding." 

"This is not something that just happened on October 8; this is something that has been in the works and been planned for years before October 7."

"As far as vandalism and shootings that target Jewish businesses and synagogues, there generally isn't enough publicly available information to draw a straight through-line between such incidents and [the] protest circuit."

"It's all happening in an atmosphere of increased animosity toward Jewish people and groups with 'Jewish' effectively being a stand-in for 'Zionist'."

Raheel Raza